John Taggart (John Ashton).The new, brash Beverly Hills Police Chief Harold Lutz (Allen Garfield), only interested in impressing Mayor Ted Egan (Robert Ridgely) with his crime-fighting efforts, dressed down his officers - he called the "Alphabet Crimes" a local case (when he learned that Rosewood followed a hunch and called the FBI to help solve the case), and suspended commanding officer Bogomil for being an inept supervisor over his men.At one point, his eyes roll upward into his head and he embraces a wooden post next to him.Later, he sprays a deck of cards and kisses the post, and then appears embarrassed by his ejaculatory responses.Back at the cabin of Trent's parents, Clay found himself at its door during his search for Whitney, where Jenna was helpful and friendly to him, and invited him in for a drink.While carrying a plate of food back to the alien, Elliott finds the creature in his closet full of stuffed animals, terrified and shaking nervously: "Too much excitement, huh?"When football-uniformed Michael returns after school, he finds "nuthin' but health s--t" in the refrigerator.The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev.Thomas Dixon Jr.'s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play,The Clansman, the second volume in a trilogy:The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden, 1865-1900The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux KlanThe TraitorIts release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn't racist at the time.